Okay, one of the first things we wanted to address is all the issues relating to sponsored communities. A lot of you are (very understandably!) upset about this, and I think it's partially due to confusion about how things are going to work, and partially due to us screwing up some of the implementation. (And, yes, some of you hate the idea ( Read more... )

I have a really, really long post about sponsored communities that we're still working on, but we wanted to go ahead and post an announcement about one of the changes we made already. A lot of people brought up concern about being able to distinguish between sponsored communities and regular communities. We were already planning on changing the ( Read more... )

I know we haven't gotten a chance to answer all the concerns you raised in comments to the previous posts in this community, but I'm just posting to say: we're reading your comments, we're listening to what you have to say, and we're changing things based on your feedbackThe entire LJ team met this morning to discuss this, and I'm personally very ( Read more... )

Bleh. Sorry, everybody...
There's some messed up communication going on internally and to you guys. Ignore lots of this. I'm sorry that I haven't been paying more attention (or really that lots of us haven't been paying more attention). (Un)fortunately, we prefer to hack on the new stuff, and not spend a lot of times with the sales department ( Read more... )

We've been working with some great companies who are really excited about LiveJournal and want to help us give you guys access to new features and special content. In the coming weeks and months, we'll be launching some new offerings, including:

• Sponsored communities: LiveJournal communities run by companies who are looking for a way to connect and ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow you might load LiveJournal and say "...wait, what the heck?" We'll be launching our new global navigation scheme, which is out of beta and has now been officially named Horizon. (The vertical navigation option, when we finish it, will be named Vertigo.) If you'd like to try it out in advance, you can go to the Browse Preferences page ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of people wondering about recent changes or proposed changes to LiveJournal's navigation and user interface, and asking why they're necessary. We've talked about our individual goals for some of the changes in the lj_design community, but we haven't talked about why we're working on the project overall, and I wanted to take a minute and ( Read more... )

I'm making my first post here in
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Hi, LiveJournal founder here. I haven't posted here in awhile, but I figured it was time I made an appearance. If you don't remember any of my previous rants over the past seven years or so, the summary is that I hate advertising. Especially punching animated monkeys that slow down my computer and distract me from what I'm reading.

Ever since ( Read more... )

I want to address the questions and concerns we have heard from users about Hitbox code on LiveJournal. There are several points that have been raised and I'll try to touch on each one.

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